These Windows netbooks were Microsoft's panicked response to Chromebooks. Unlike Chromebooks, they're mostly too slow to be of practical use as netbooks. But th

These Windows netbooks were Microsoft's panicked response to Chromebooks. Unlike Chromebooks, they're mostly too slow to be of practical use as netbooks. But they're small, cute and super-portable laptops in any case. I run Linux on a much older one myself. I even wrote a book on it - LibreOffice is relatively small and fast these days! - though the box is too slow to be practical as a netbook). If you want to Linux one of these, watch out for the following: * severely anaemic processors * you will be compiling your drivers from source * usually for the worst wifi hardware in the world Nice to see they're at 8GB now - 4GB was just too cramped in the modern world. 8GB, you can at least run a browser ok. Slightly disappointed at the 768p screen - mine has 1080p and it turns out retina is correct. Here's my 4GB Linuxed netbook, which I think is 2016 hardware (certainly the CPU is): https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/608064.html https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/608064.html